The Bible in Cross Cultural Perspective (Revised Edition)

Some Questions are Universal Where did I come from? What happens when I die? Am I important? Across the world these questions are answered in a vast range of ways shaped by our worldview and our specific cultural context. Cross-cultural workers seeking to engage people at the point of these questions can offer a rich dialogue between cultural assumptions and biblical truth but only if they can reach into the cultural framework underlying a particular context. The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective explores this cultural framework tackling different aspects of the Biblical worldviews interaction with both Western/secular and a traditional/animist worldviews. With topics ranging from the physical and metaphysical perception of the universe to the significance of names Loewen unpacks cultural construction in all of its layered complexity allowing us to visualize where the Gospel will interact with peoples beliefs regardless of their context. Jacob Loewen the author of Culture and Human Values draws on multiple years of experience--across several continents--as a field missionary anthropologist linguist bible translator and missions researcher. The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective originally published in 2000 is Loewens culminating work in missionary anthropology and it remains a useful and relevant work today.